Yes, You Can: Hillary Clinton On Owning Ambition, Power & Happiness

“Accomplishment and happiness go together,” Hillary Rodham Clinton told an enthusiastic crowd during her recent talk for the Chicago Humanities Festival Joanne H. Alter Women in Government Lecture.

Career success, Change Leadership, Ambition / Intention, Career choicesMichele WeldonMay 26, 2023Female Leadership, Women In Politics, happiness, Government, Women in GovernmentComment

Who Runs The World? Women Leaders On Global Stage And What That Means

Sure, there was Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt starting in 51 B.C., and a sorority of Japanese empresses for a few hundred years starting in the 6th century.

Change LeadershipMichele WeldonJuly 19, 2016Change, Power Tools, Women and Leadership, Women and Power, Women in Government Comments

30 Women Making More than a Best-Dressed List

Iowa has been the center of the political universe this week as the first caucus makes every talking point of the campaign season count, so Fusion came out with a bold list of “30 Women Who Will Change The Election.” The series of 30 videos highlights the XX movers who move past “Washington types” and predictable party lines to create a group of dynamic change-makers.

Inspirational Role Models, Leadership/Political a...Take The LeadJanuary 31, 2016impact, Role Models, Take The Lead This Week, Women in Government, WOMEN IN POLITICSComment

Taiwan Elects Its First Female President

Last July we wrote about how Taiwan was on the verge of electing a female president for the first time in its history, with both major political parties nominating female candidates. Over the weekend the island made it official by voting Tsai Ing-wen of the Democratic Progressive Party into office.Tsai won 56 percent of the vote in what the Economist is calling a “landslide that will change Chinese politics.”

Change Leadership, Inspirational Role Models, Parity, Propel: Take The Lead ...Julianne HelinekJanuary 17, 2016Take The Lead This Week, women firsts, Women in Government, WOMEN IN POLITICSComment

For the First Time in Forever, a Woman Is Person of the Year

TIME announced last week that German Chancellor Angela Merkel is its Person of the Year for 2015. Good for Angela Merkel, you may be thinking, but why is this big news to Take The Lead?

Change Leadership, Changing the Power Par..., Propel: Take The Lead ...Julianne HelinekDecember 13, 2015female leadership, Take The Lead This Week, Women in Government, WOMEN IN POLITICS, women in powerComment

Canada Swears In a 50 Percent Female Cabinet

We love that new Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau calls himself a feminist. We love it even more that he’s practicing what he preaches.

Change Leadership, Propel: Take The Lead ...Julianne HelinekNovember 8, 2015gender parity, leadership parity, supportive men, Take The Lead This Week, Women in Government Comment

Poland Is Being Run by Women

Over the weekend the right-leaning Labor and Justice Party won a majority in Poland’s general election, setting up 52-year-old Beata Szydlo to become the country’s next prime minister. She will be the third female prime minister in the country’s history, and will take over from another woman, Ewa Kopacz of the Civic Party.

Change Leadership, Propel: Take The Lead ...Julianne HelinekOctober 25, 2015Take The Lead This Week, Women in Government, WOMEN IN POLITICSComment

Women Give More Money to Female Politicians

Okay, so that’s probably not a shocking piece of information. But this report from The Upshot at The New York Times is still worth a skim for its insights into who’s wielding what political power heading into the 2016 election.

Finance/Money, Leadership/Political a...Julianne HelinekOctober 18, 2015Money, Take The Lead This Week, Women and Power, Women in Government, WOMEN IN POLITICSComment

Sisters-in-Law: How Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sandra Day O'Connor Went to the Supreme Court and Changed the World

When Sandra Day O’Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg emerged from their private worlds of practice and teaching onto the public stage in the early 1970’s, the women’s movement was actively moving to become the next legal social movement. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 which passed in the wake of the racial social movement also barred discrimination on the basis of sex, and women’s movement lawyers were starting to bring cases under it. Then, in the heady days of the 1970’s, anything seemed possible.